Paper short abstract:

The objective of this study is to analyze the continuities and transformations of concepts and links were established between youth policy and state in Argentina in recent years. Particularly interested in forms of political action, and changes or continuities that lead in terms of concepts and relationships that young people and elaborated on the political and the state and its place as agents of political projects for the country

Paper long abstract:

The objective of this study is to analyze the continuities and transformations of concepts and links were established between youth policy and state in Argentina in recent years. The tradition of reading of youth born in Argentina to observe them as political subjects since the early twentieth century as it was one of the first cultural images for which they are more visible on the public sphere. The discontinuity of the democratic life of the country has produced changes in the forms of political expression of the general population, and youth sectors in particular. There are currently participating in an organized youth sectors in political action, some of them take the state as a means for the realization of the political project that meets and challenges. This situation, placed in historical perspective and linked to other experiences to not youth people and contemporary youth, to analyze dynamic changes in the conception of the state, and the political and the role of young people in the projects of nation.

The estudo is based on primary data drawn from three places: 1) current ethnographic work with youth in poverty in an average city, 2) training workshops for youth policy and 3) previous research by the author with other youth sectors; on the other hand analyzes are used by other authors as secondary sources. This will look for a comparative perspective, both in time and heterogeneity of experience and youth policy of relations between state, politics and youth.